Sometimes perfection can have a debilitating effect on execution. Almost disease like, it can arrest your progress.
Perfection is actually an unnatural state. Ironically natures imperfections seem to give it a feeling of perfection.
I’m as guilty as the next person for wanting all the ducks lined up but this is only in some areas. Other areas I don’t seem to care as much and will knowingly let perfection slip. A typical area I like to be meticulous in is Saasu.com application defects. While at the same time I am ok leaving the odd spelling mistake slip through editing on the Saasu website. I guess I adopt a triage mentality to things we work on.
Here are two quotes I think sum up the attitude worth adopting to get over this issue if you find yourself not completing things because they aren’t quite perfect:
“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.” General George S Patton
“Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.” Robert Hillyer
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However you never want to have a web application that frustrates people and makes it hard for them to do want they want to do with their data. Removing that level of frustration is not perfection.
Yeah i agree, it’s just plain frustrating and not even close to acceptable. We have many flaws usability flaws I will admit openly. Not as frustrating as wanting to do more than you have time to! Grrrr! (at my own tail)
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